Re: [vox] Re: [vox][OT] Google as a verb (was:first bad experience with e-commerce - need advice
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Re: [vox] Re: [vox][OT] Google as a verb (was:first bad experience with e-commerce - need advice
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On Friday 10 January 2003 08:17 pm, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Close, but no cigar. It's not a verb yet! ^_^
It is acording to the jargon file :-P
$ dict google
2 definitions found
- From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
google v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine,
`www.google.com'. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its
significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many
users consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively
irrelevant. The name `google' has additional flavor for hackers because
most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the
hundredth power, famously first uttered by a mathematician's infant
child.
- From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
Google
<World-Wide Web> The {World-Wide Web} {search engine} that
indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by
December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this
index in less than a second.
The site's name is apparently derived from "{googol}", but
note the difference in spelling.
The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,
leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
blizzard?"
{Home (http://www.google.com/)}.
(2001-12-28)
> -Mark
>
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, John McDonnell wrote:
> > It would appear that on Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Mark K. Kim did say:
> > > PS: How long do you suppose it'll take for the word "google" will
> > > appear in a dictionary as a verb?
> >
> > Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=google
This entry is from FOLDOC.
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